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Instant Pot Shredded Chicken

This is an easy 3 ingredient Instant Pot shredded chicken recipe that we use to make soft tacos often! Simple pressure cooker dump recipe that’s healthy and so cheap that it feeds all 5 of us for under $10.00. If you’re looking for a great barbecue chicken recipe this one is a keeper and really versatile too.

I’m in love with my Instant Pot! It makes dinnertime so much easier and I feel like I cook much more often for the 5 of us because of it, that’s a win win in my book. Last night I made this 4 ingredient Instant Pot shredded chicken “Hawaiian style” and it came out SO very delicious. I added it to small soft tortillas with some cheese and avocado slices and made tacos with it. Everyone raved about how good this turned out and it just took 15 minutes to cook in my new favorite appliance. Here is the easy recipe, and one of our favorite Instant Pot recipes now, especially for taco Tuesdays! (affiliate links present, updated, originally published 1/17)

Amazing doesn’t even describe this meal!

Just 3 ingredients and an Instant Pot and you’re ready to go! We love it like I said, served in flour tortillas but we’ve served it over rice before too and it’s just as good. It is a pretty healthy chicken recipe too and really inexpensive to make costing only about $10 total for the whole meal which served all 5 of us + leftovers for me to eat it for lunch the next day.

Instant Pot Shredded Chicken

This is an easy 3 ingredient Instant Pot shredded chicken recipe that we use to make soft tacos often! Simple pressure cooker dump recipe that's healthy and so cheap that it feeds all 5 of us for under $10.00. If you're looking for a great barbecue chicken recipe this one is a keeper and really versatile too.

Course Entree, Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword barbecue, chicken, instant pot, pressure cooker, shredded

Prep Time 10minutes

Cook Time 5minutes

Total Time 15minutes

Servings 5

Calories 170kcal

Author The Typical Mom

Ingredients

1 jarbarbecue sauce20 oz. or so, not honey style or one with a lot of sugar in it

1cchunk pineapple

3 - 4chicken breastsor 2 large ones cut in half, boneless / skinless

1bagflour tortillaspkg. small

3/4cwater

avocadosliced, optional

1cpineapple juicefrom the can you're using

1onionsliced, optional

1tbspsoy sauceoptional

1ccheese

Instructions

Empty 1/2 jar of barbecue sauce on bottom of Instant Pot.

Put chicken breasts on top of your sauce, squeeze other half of jar on top of the chicken.

Pour 3/4 c water inside your bbq sauce jar, put lid on and shake, pour this on top of chicken followed by chunks of pineapple (and sliced onion + soy sauce if you choose to add those). Gently stir so chicken is well coated.

Close Instant Pot and make sure steam valve is closed. Set to poultry setting, high for 15 minutes (automatically sets to this time when you hit the poultry function).

When it beeps do a quick release, and then lift lid.

Use 2 forks to shred chicken right in the pot. Add some to small tortillas to make soft tacos with some cheese and avocado, or leave chicken whole and serve on top of rice.

Your frozen foods will thaw as the IP comes to pressure, so you don’t want to increase the cook time, or you risk over-cooking the chicken and making it dry. Using frozen foods takes a little bit longer to cook because it takes a little bit longer for the IP to fully pressurize. But thawing in the IP for a few minutes is a lot less time than thawing in the sink or refrigerator, so you’re still saving time!

I just made this and the bottoms of the chicken breasts ended up completely burnt. I removed the burnt parts and shredded the rest and it was still delicious, but any idea what I did wrong? I followed the instructions exactly. I used Sweet Baby Rays Hickory & Brown Sugar BBQ sauce–could that be why?